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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Paz uderstands it, what is the Mexican's relation to death?
(a) Sacrificial.
(b) Intimate and heartbreaking.
(c) Emotionally remote.
(d) Intimate but empty.

2. In Paz's estimation, what vital word has the Mexican forgotten?
(a) The word of love given to him by his mother.
(b) The word that gives him peace with all others.
(c) The word that allows him to reach out to others.
(d) The word tying him to life forces of creativity and destruction.

3. What was one factor that guided the Revolution to prioritize tradition?
(a) The large number of supporters over the age of 50.
(b) Its belief in the value of the past.
(c) The workers did not belong to the city or the country, and so they did not have any tradition.
(d) Its fear of the future.

4. Why was Diaz's regime in a precarious position regarding positivist philosophy?
(a) Because it could not afford to support such a philosophy when the regime itself was so new.
(b) Because only about half the regime favored the philosophy.
(c) Because the common people vehemently opposed the philosophy.
(d) Because it adopted rather than fathered the philosophy.

5. How does solitude assume a purifying, almost purgative, quality for the Mexican?
(a) It concentrates the Mexican's attention on the Divine rather than on the human.
(b) It serves to mitigate his guilt (a Catholicism concept).
(c) It wipes away his anger toward others.
(d) It is proof of future communion with others.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Latin America, what was the importance of Jose Gorostiza's poem, Muerte sin Fin?

2. In their relation to their world, to whom does Paz compare Mexicans?

3. How does a man become "like the angels" (Chapter Three, page 61)?

4. In Paz's thought, what does a study of the great myths reveal?

5. What was the motto of positivism?

(see the answer key)

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